Mathematica's evaluation looked at early childhood developing programming, policy development, and investments; (2) efforts to enhance infrastructure to expand and sustain investments in service quality and support parent choice and decision making; and (3) efforts to integrate programs and...

This report examines prices that private health plans paid for high-volume inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, and physician and other professional services, finding significant price variation for every service. For selected inpatient services with quality measures...

At the start of implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, this article found that a minority of U.S. hospitals, 10.7 percent, exchange clinical data electronically with unaffiliated providers.

State assessments are increasingly used as outcome measures for education evaluations, and such evaluations generally use pretest scores as control variables. The correlation between the pretest and outcome (posttest) measures is a factor in determining, among other things, a study's statistical...

This article examines registered nurses' experiences with health information technology and reports that their perceptions of its effect on quality of care and daily work were positive.

This is the second annual report on the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration, a federal initiative to help states reduce their reliance on institutional care for people needing long-term care and expand options for elderly people and individuals with disabilities to receive care in the...